Master Swindler

Seeing that the sharp blade was about to pierce Lu Qingjia's eyebrows, the surrounding players only had time to show expressions of astonishment.

Everyone seemed to have seen the scene of his blood splattering, but when they came back to their senses, they realized that the blade had stopped just a hair's breadth away from Lu Qingjia's skin, and could not advance any further.

A strand of hair at the back of his head grew longer at some point, and wrapped around the blade. The hair was flexible and strong, and the seemingly indestructible blade could not be cut off or broken free.

When the sneak attack failed, the corpse on the ground suddenly opened its eyes, and the blade popped out from its knuckles, and slashed towards Lu Qingjia.

But since Lu Qingjia was able to respond to the unexpected sneak attack, it would be no problem afterwards.

The player's body quickly condensed into a large lump of ice, maintaining an attacking posture, and stopped in place like a statue.

It can be seen that the other party is trying to break free, but apart from the slight movement of the fingertips, there is no way to regain control of the body.

The surrounding players found their breath after seeing this: "Here, he's not dead yet?"

"Why did he sneak up on you?"

Lu Qingjia said: "Dead."

As he spoke, he pushed the 'ice sculpture' down, and because of the shock after being frozen, one hand shattered directly after he fell to the ground, splashing aside.

Lu Qingjia unlocked the Frost ability, and a scalpel appeared in his hand, cutting off the opponent's joints and meridians in two or three strokes, making the opponent unable to move.

However, even if it turned into a puddle of soft meat, the opponent still persevered in wanting to attack Lu Qingjia.

Lu Qingjia pressed the opponent's head with his hand wrapped in air bubbles, and the scalpel precisely found a certain place, and cut out a small black bug from inside.

After the bug was separated from the body, the body became silent and completely turned into a dead body.

"Is this planted with a Gu?" A player with a horror game asked.

"When did he get the Gu? Why did he stare at Brother Lu and attack?"

Although everyone in the village in this dungeon has the surname Lu, and most of the cursed player characters also have the surname Lu, but unlike Lu Qingjia's coincidence, the other players' real surnames are actually not this.

But everyone is not stupid, and the unlucky ghost who just died is not likely to plant this thing for himself, turning himself into a walking dead thing.

And even if he planted the Gu himself, why didn't he catch Lu Qingjia and attack?Before Lu Qingjia came back, it was not that there were no players who encountered his body because of the inspection, and it was fine at the time, only Lu Qingjia had a problem.

In this way, things became more obvious: "Who was he bewitched by?"

"The three of us went back to the village yesterday. Except for the wedding at the beginning, didn't we meet everyone afterwards?" The extreme game player said: "After the wedding groom died, everyone dispersed. When Mr. Lu inquired about everyone and pulled everyone into a group, it was the first online match."

"After one night, the three of us formed a team and came back. A few of you are still in the city. You all met before that, and you came here in a team all the way. This is the contact time, right?"

The meaning is very clear, unless there are other hidden threats, otherwise the most suspicious of the dead ghosts are the few players who came with them.

What's more, the difficulty of the game is already so high, and the possibility of hidden threats is extremely low, so his guess can almost be confirmed.

A player who came with him was unhappy when he heard this: "You are quick to solve the case."

"It's really good that you can become an exchange student, but don't treat other mid-level players as fools. With so many of us, if anyone makes a move, they won't notice it at all?"

"For things like laying a venom on people, it is typical to invest in small powerful skills, so it is determined that either the program is responsible for the high requirements, or there is extremely high strength to suppress it so that no one will notice it."

"To be honest, so far, although everyone has cooperated happily, if you want to say who trusts whom more, you don't believe it, right? Then why should you throw the suspicion on us? You just came a day early, and It’s not that you haven’t left the village after entering the game.”

The extreme player sneered after hearing this: "Okay, even if there are other possibilities, but in terms of sneaky and evil abilities, how can it be a threat to your horror games? It's not like our two games don't have similar copies, but the number is as terrifying as yours. Compared to games, that’s really negligible.”

"Counting these two points together, I'm not saying it's a final conclusion, but you have to admit that in terms of probability, your suspicion is far greater than our facts, right?"

Seeing the tense atmosphere on both sides, the players of Infinity Games quickly smoothed things over: "Hey, don't say that, we're not the police solving the case, it's no good for anyone to suspect each other now."

He changed the subject again and said, "Brother Lu, those two tricks you used just now, I remember, were traitorous abilities."

Lu Qingjia nodded: "Fortunately, at least for now, except for the time of rebellion, other times are still free and flexible, without hindering the use."

The infinite player's eyes flashed.

He acted together with Lu Qingjia, and saw with his own eyes the betrayal of the frost ability last night and the bubble ability at noon that almost suffocated him to death.

Especially the bubble ability, this is a crisis that only happened within a few hours.

But only so little time has passed, and Lu Qingjia dared to continue to trust and use his abilities without hesitation, and to use them without hesitation in times of crisis, and his body did not show even a second of instinctive hesitation due to the betrayal of his abilities .

It shows that the other party really doesn't mind about it.

Not to mention anything else, just this powerful nerve makes people feel scary.

I didn't see a few other players still feeling sorry for the betrayal of other people's abilities they saw with their own eyes, and they were already discussing how to use less abilities.

The infinite player asked again: "But how do you know that there are Gu worms in his mind?"

Lu Qingjia said: "I have the ability to see through, so seeing through a mere human body is not a problem."

Seeing that the players around were a little stiff, Lu Qingjia smiled: "Don't worry, as a player of this level, the brain and important organs are covered with spiritual power, which can isolate prying eyes. My clairvoyance is not strong enough to directly See through you who are alive."

"If you want to talk about it, it can penetrate the limbs at most, but this person is dead and his spiritual power has dissipated, so it's not a problem."

I don't know how much they believed this, but at least the atmosphere on the face eased a little.

A spray gun appeared in Lu Qingjia's hand, and he turned on the switch on the dead body.

This spray gun was bought by Unlimited Games. It can quickly cremate corpses. It is aimed at a world where corpses such as zombie copies can pose a threat.

Lu Qingjia explained: "If it is not cleaned up, the player's body will be turned into lamp oil, which will continue the next curse, and it is useless to keep it."

Everyone has no objection to this, after all, they are not real companions, and the corpses of characters who died in the game are meaningless.

After cleaning up, Lu Qingjia said, "Okay, we're going up the mountain to find some clues, do you want to go together?"

Some people chose to act together with Lu Qingjia, but more chose to explore information alone.

After all, Lu Qingjia and the others had an advantage by coming one day earlier. Although it is still peaceful now, no one can say whether he will adulterate the information he shared. With the vigilance and suspicion of the players, they are more willing to believe in their own discovery.

Lu Qingjia didn't force it, and followed the villagers' directions to a certain place in the back mountain.

It was the flowering season at this time, and it was exactly as they described, the flowers and colors in this area were obviously different from those around them.

Originally, they were ordinary flowers all over the mountains and plains, and the soil that was tens of meters away was white, blue and purple. In this piece of land less than 100 meters away, it turned into a blood-soaked red.

Lu Qingjia took a look at the terrain and found that this place is very suitable for living. Looking at the traces around, someone should have built a house here a long time ago. Lu Qingjia even saw a dry well, and he could find a stone foundation when he probed down, indicating that this place is Lived in someone else's house.

But now it has degenerated into a desert, and the surrounding area is deserted. No one builds a house here, and no one cultivates the land.

The flat terrain here, coupled with the fact that it is very close to the houses in the village, and the village is dominated by farming, obviously it is impossible to leave a piece of good land abandoned.

Lu Qingjia went back to the girl's house, called out her grandma, and asked what happened to the land, why no one cultivated it, and no one built a house on it.

The girl's grandma shook her head: "Impossible, how can I ruin the place where the mountain god flowers bloom? It will be struck by lightning."

Lu Qingjia asked again: "Actually, I want to ask, when did the sacrifice start?"

The girl's grandmother shook her head: "I can't remember."

"The list of sacrifices is always recorded, right?" Lu Qingjia said: "This kind of thing should be passed down from generation to generation, just like the genealogy."

This time, the girl's grandma nodded: "Yes, Shanwazi has kept it for thousands of years."

Shanwazi is the village head, and the old lady is old and senior, so she is qualified to be called that.

Lu Qingjia left satisfied, and immediately found the village head, who also heard that one of them had died.

He shook his head and sighed, "What a crime, kids."

Lu Qingjia smiled and said: "How can you say that, life and death are fate, instead of a meaningless end, serving the mountain god is of great significance after all, the village chief, you should be happy."

village head:"……"

Sure enough, the second devil is worse than the big devil. If the village chief has studied psychology, he should know that this guy's current behavior is called "converter fanaticism".

Lu Qingjia said again: "By the way, the village chief, in order to better serve the mountain god and understand all the past, of course there is also a trace of his own blood. I want to see the sacrificial records and genealogy of the past dynasties. Is it possible?"

The village chief was also generous, and agreed without even thinking about it.

It's just that you can only watch it here, and you can't take it away.

Lu Qingjia smiled and said: "That's just right, I will have dinner at your house in the evening, I like to eat twice-cooked pork and shredded fish-flavored pork, and the eggplants you grow outside seem to be quite good, let's have some cold eggplants, thank you cousin. "

According to seniority, the village head is also the uncle of Lu Qingjia's role.

Seeing this guy so shameless, the village head was so angry that he couldn't get up.

But it seemed stingy to search for a meal, so he could only push away the children who gathered around to watch the fun: "Go, go, do your homework, what are you playing?"

Then when Lu Qingjia looked through the genealogy and sacrificial records, he discovered an unbelievable thing.

How small is the probability that a village has existed for more than a thousand years, has been in good weather, and its inheritance has never been broken?

However, judging from the timeline, this is exactly the case. After the first living sacrifice, the villagers never encountered a major disaster.

Regardless of whether it was a natural or man-made disaster or a change of dynasty, the mountain village was forgotten by all disasters. Judging from the superficial records, this living sacrifice really made the village safe and prosperous.

Leaving aside the original records, the time when Lu Qingjia came to the first live sacrifice was recorded as a severe drought at that time, and the sacrifices offered in the village were originally to pray for rain.

Sure enough, the wish was fulfilled the next day, and sacrifices became a custom after that.

Lu Qingjia glanced at the names of the first batch of sacrifices. It was still a thousand years ago. Of course, these records were re-transcribed.

After digging out the genealogy correspondence of that year, Lu Qingjia soon found out that something was wrong.

Because the first batch of boys and girls were actually brothers and sisters.

Generally speaking, no matter what the banner of this kind of living sacrifice is, the family offering the sacrifice will always be sad, let alone if a family sacrifices two children at the same time.

Either the family was lonely and bullied in the village, or there was a specific screening method that was just bad luck.

Lu Qingjia asked the girl's grandmother about the rules of offering sacrifices for thousands of years, not to pick out background or other conditions.

The first is under the age of 15, and the second is an innocence, both of which are sufficient.

As for the source of sacrifices, if there are sick or disgusted children in the family, you can take the initiative to offer sacrifices. If not, you can draw lots from someone with suitable conditions.

Of course, if you take the initiative to sacrifice, you can be exempted from participating in the next three sessions, so it is not impossible for some families to take the initiative to send unwanted children to death in order to keep specific children.

Girls are not listed in the genealogy, but the sacrificed girls are different. No matter how little they were valued during their lifetime, as long as they serve the mountain gods, they are of great significance.

Therefore, Lu Qingjia can easily see the origin of the sacrificial offerings of the past dynasties.

The first generation of boys and girls came from one family, and the second generation still belonged to that family, and then that family died out. The family that used to have a large population died out not long after.

What's even more exciting is that the first priest, that is, the person who proposed the living sacrifice and presided over it, was actually the son-in-law of that family.

The son-in-law is the only long-lived person in the whole family. He lived to be 89 years old and presided over more than 20 sacrifices.

In the end, he died and was buried in the back mountain——

"Cousin, uncle, come down here." Lu Qingjia stroking the cat and shouting.

The village chief came over impatiently: "What? What are you going to do again?"

"Where is this priest buried?"

The village chief had a strange expression on his face, as if it was not the first time he had answered this question.

He said: "It's the area where the mountain god's flowers bloom. The first generation of priests is the person who is closest to the mountain god, so naturally they have to be buried in the blessed place."

Lu Qingjia suddenly smiled: "Fudi? Not necessarily?"

He turned to the page of the genealogy: "According to the records and descriptions, his Yue's family lived in that area at the beginning, and then the whole family died, and it has been desolate since then. Uncle, you actually said it is a blessed land?"

The village chief's teeth were gritty: "The blessed land depends on whether it can bear it. His family's fortune is poor and he can't afford it. Isn't that the way it is?"

Lu Qingjia asked again: "Where the first priests are buried, was it decided by the villagers later, or did he ask for it?"

"How do I know that?" The village chief smiled, "Thousands of years have passed, and I can't dig out the bones to help you ask."

Lu Qingjia looked at him and said with a smile: "Why do you do this? Don't tell me what you know. Then I will sue you in front of the mountain god. You are a living person and a dying person. It's a good deal." ?"

"Don't use this as a raft." The village chief said, "Who is afraid that you, a little kid, will fail?"

Lu Qingjia spread her hands together: "All of us are here, anyway, it's not the first time I've said something to you, you have to say it if you say it, or you have to say it if you don't say it."

The village chief sneered: "Why?"

"I know who is the inner ghost who is colluding with you." Lu Qingjia said.

"what?"

Lu Qingjia said casually: "You guys have already prepared the natal oil lamps. I found an opportunity to look over this year's oil lamps, and the names of the people who came back are the same. You can't say that you are prophets?"

"The only possibility is that someone outside has already discussed this list with you and communicated with each other."

Of course, it is impossible for Lu Qingjia to say that it is an ironclad evidence obtained by tracing back the ingredients of lamp oil, but the fact is so, and this is enough.

Seeing the village head's disdainful expression of "you're talking nonsense", Lu Qingjia said, "Uncle, this is easy to investigate."

"First of all, cooperate with the village to entrap the lives of fellow clansmen who have already come out of the mountain. If this kind of thing is not driven by huge interests or crises, ordinary people would not do this and continue for so many years."

"Although the village has no worries about food and clothing, it's a joke to say how much benefit you can bribe those city people."

"Then the only restraint is to curse this part."

"What good is it to them to harm other young people? If there is no profit-driven, then there is only self-protection. Because if the curse list of each session can be manipulated, there is a possibility of evasion."

"So the logic follows. Some people would send other people's children to die for the sake of their own family's long-term health."

The village head's face became ugly.

But before Lu Qingjia got to the point, he continued: "Now that the motive is locked, it is easy to speculate on the logic of the behavior."

"The curse can't be generated by just writing someone's name. I'm afraid there is a certain procedure in the middle, right? The person who cooperates with you must first meet two conditions."

"The first person who can get in touch with the whole family outside and walk around from time to time without seeming disobedient at all means that this family is usually good at dancing and has a good relationship with almost all families."

"Secondly, there must be no deaths in his family. After all, there were only so many people who escaped at the beginning. Even if they have spread out over the years, the number is limited. The probability of not being able to turn to his family is too small. And in a group Unlucky people are exceptionally lucky, and will attract hatred, so condition one cannot be maintained."

"But in today's society, it's really not achievable to fake a person's death."

Lu Qingjia took out his mobile phone, opened an interface, faced the village chief and said to him: "I selected a few people who I suspected, and after a little investigation, I found that one of the family has been in contact with a strange account on the social network for a long time."

"Thanks to the push function of the major software now, it took a little time and patience to dig out me. It turned out to be a son of their family who had been dead for ten years."

"However, the other party has changed his name and surname to live abroad. If there is no accident, he will never meet with his family members. It's easy to hide."

Beads of sweat came out of the village head's face, and his lips became pale.

Lu Qingjia approached him with a smile and said, "Cousin, if I reveal this matter, do you think we can find someone to replace him before the next three years come?"

"No, it's not a matter of finding a substitute. Once things are exposed, the tribes outside will suspect each other and cut off contact with each other completely, and most of them will choose to move secretly to places where no one knows. Don't tell me when the time comes. To meet the requirements of the curse, it is difficult to find anyone."

"Of course I believe that the mountain gods are so powerful that they can still be cursed, but if you can't complete your mission, the problem will be serious."

"Oh, by the way, and after learning the truth, I can't guarantee that the angry clansmen will not retaliate against the village."

"We must know that although no one has been doing well in these years, it is still uncertain what people's madness can do driven by the pain of bereavement."

After Lu Qingjia finished speaking, the smile on his face disappeared, and his expression became domineering: "Now, is my uncle willing to answer my question properly?"

"You, you say!"

Lu Qingjia came out from the village head's house in the evening after eating and drinking. Not to mention that the village head's wife is not bad at cooking, the local pork in the countryside is delicious, and the twice-cooked pork fried with garlic sprouts and hot peppers is burnt and chewy, and the fish-flavored shredded pork is also very good with rice. , Garlic eggplant is refreshing and appetizing.

When Lu Qingjia was eating, he even brought the cat to the table to eat, and the village chief dared not speak out.

In the end, Lu Qingjia was sent away like a village bully.

After Lu Qingjia returned to the room, she sent a message to the woman who made a big wedding, telling the groom's family that they were looking for her everywhere.

The woman trusted Lu Qingjia, so she told him the reason of her guess: "I guess she asked me for that jade buckle."

"What jade buckle?"

"That bastard passed it down from his ancestors. It is said that it is passed on from male to female, and he wears it at any time." The woman said: "But I took it off on the day of the wedding. I wanted to fall and disgust him, but he died before it was over. .”

The next thing was that Lu Qingjia gave her the money, and she moved out overnight. When the groom's parents collected the body, they found that the ancestral treasure was gone. Checking the surveillance of the wedding scene, they naturally knew that she took it away.

Back then, the woman didn't take it seriously, and she didn't want Lu Qingjia to think of her as a money-grubbing bad person, so she didn't say anything about it.

Lu Qingjia said, "Can you give me that thing?"

"Okay, I'm in XX District, XX City, come and get it anytime you want."

At this moment, if there is anyone who can make a woman voluntarily disclose her whereabouts, only Lu Qingjia has no doubts.

Lu Qingjia said: "Success, I'll come over later."

"Now? You happen to be in this city?" The woman was surprised.

Lu Qingjia also admitted along the way, but just opened any door and went back to the city, bought a first-class ticket to that city at a high price, and showed up in that city three hours later.

It was about ten o'clock in the evening when the woman was found.

The woman opened the door, and it could be seen that she had been doing well for the past two days, and the environment of the rented house was also good, saying that she wanted to settle down here.

After chatting for a while, he took out the jade buckle. It looked like it was old, but Lu Qingjia didn't feel any special spiritual power.

Lu Qingjia was a little surprised, this piece of jade was worth a lot, but it wasn't enough to make people come to ask for it back regardless of his son's funeral, and he hesitated to say what he was looking for.

According to Lu Qingjia's guess, the things in the women's hands should be very important to them.

So important that even if the groom dies, the family that came with the groom's parents can benefit from it.

Why did only one family come to ask for it?All Lu Qingjia could think of was that the benefits could not be shared equally.

But now Lu Qingjia obviously couldn't feel the specialness of this jade buckle, so he asked the woman: "Apart from this? Is there anything else important to them? Think about it carefully."

The woman thought for a long time, and finally shook her head: "No, I know that their son will have to settle with me if their son dies, so I left in a hurry, so I brought my documents, money and belongings, and I didn't want anything more. They should have found it by themselves in my rental house."

Seeing Lu Qingjia frowning, the woman suddenly said, "By the way, I thought of one more thing before you came."

"Three years ago, someone asked that bitch for this jade buckle, but the bitch didn't give it to him. Such a stingy and money-greedy fellow would cost 100 million yuan to buy, but he gritted his teeth and refused to sell it."

"But later that person offered him tens of thousands, and after just looking at it, the bitch agreed, because that bitch chattered with me for a long time afterwards, and I was deeply impressed by this."

She said and looked at Lu Qingjia: "By the way, the person who wants to buy jade buckles looks a lot like you."